Example sentences of "[pers pn] give up [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABBERLEY : I gave up the title to you . |
| 2 | I gave up the idea of tea , but was able to make a washer in the afternoon with rubber from an abandoned tyre . |
| 3 | I the car I had before I gave up the company car was a Mercedes Sports S L |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend know that I gave up the opportunity of becoming a solicitor like the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) because accountants put the losses on the right and the profits on the left ? |
| 5 | When Nicklaus did finally track me down he told me the bag was still mine if I wanted it , but I told him I 'd already committed myself , so I gave up the chance . |
| 6 | After giving your letter to my ‘ bonne ’ yesterday I gave up the fight and retired in good order to bed , where I am still . |
| 7 | At the agreed rate of 10¢ per column inch it meant that if I could provide two 25-inch columns per day , which was relatively easy for me , I could earn about $30 per week which was $6 more than I was getting when I gave up the staff job . |
| 8 | I try to see Oreste , or used to before I gave up the torture , but all I see is a baby , fat and dimpled … ’ |
| 9 | I gave up the job there and then and headed for Brazil . |
| 10 | So I gave up the production of all but ‘ Leicester Square to Broadway ’ and began to wonder if I would not be happier producing shows for the BBC in London or in another country — perhaps China . |
| 11 | While I have great sympathy for the doctors of twenty years or more ago who did not realise the addictive effect of such tablets when they began to prescribe them , I do not feel equal sympathy for those doctors ( fortunately their number is growing less ) who still hand out similar prescriptions to their patients and then fail to monitor their progress or to help them give up the medication as soon as possible . |
| 12 | After a while , he said , ‘ Did you give up the job on the Council , then ? ’ |
| 13 | After the first few months , George was insistent that she give up the market stall . |
| 14 | Finding teaching too confining , she gave up a post as a governess in 1895 . |
| 15 | ‘ On finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes ’ |
| 16 | Two years later , on finding she had become hooked like a drug addict , she gave up the shoot-out paintings and moved into a more feminine world to explore female stereotypes . |
| 17 | With an anguished whimper she gave up the fight and kissed him back with a fervour born of all the long , lonely nights she 'd spent without him , her arms snaking up round his neck to pull him closer still . |
| 18 | Then she gave up the struggle and dropped on her knees beside Debbie . |
| 19 | She gave up the branch chairmanship of the Civil and Public Servants union in 1990 after 10 years and said of her multi-purpose role : ‘ My husband used to say our lounge was like an office on Sunday nights when I was sorting through my paperwork for the week . ’ |
| 20 | Later , she gave up the childminding and took on some secretarial work in the mornings which still allowed her to continue with her lunch-time job . |
| 21 | Moira McVitie is fairly putting on the beef since she gave up the teaching when wee Scott was born . |
| 22 | ‘ Everyone told me to give up the womanising at my age . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Princes will cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not persuade them to give up a rank to which they believe themselves entitled . ’ |
| 24 | " Princes cede towns , even provinces , but all the ability of the most adroit negotiators can not decide them to give up a rank which they believe to be their right " . |
| 25 | They had gunpowder and very sophisticated engineering devices well before the west , but one can document the fact that the Chinese gave up science , rather dramatically , erm in subsequent centuries , simply because they lost faith that there was any underlying order in nature to be discovered , that it was their background religion and philosophy which led them to give up the idea of unravelling the structure of the universe . |
| 26 | Quite often they persuade them to give up the hostages . |
| 27 | Once in , it seemed nothing , absolutely nothing , could make her give up the job she loved . |
| 28 | I have seen people deteriorate quickly when they give up a routine , believing that this is the right thing to do . |
| 29 | Persistent ill health induced him to give up the surveyorship at Christ 's Hospital in January 1816 and that of the Bethlehem Hospital the following year . |
| 30 | A former bus driver , illness forced him to give up the DIAL office at Kingsley which he ran successfully for two years . |